The Commission on Human Rights, taking note of resolution 2004/9 of 9 August 2004, of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, decides:
(a) To express its deep appreciation to the Special Rapporteur, Mrs. Erica-Irene A. Daes, for her excellent and very comprehensive final report on the study entitled “Indigenous peoples’ permanent sovereignty over natural resources” (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/30 and Add.1);
(b) To recommend to the Economic and Social Council that it authorize the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene an expert seminar during the year 2005, to which representatives of indigenous peoples and Governments as well as the Special Rapporteur will be invited, in order to give further attention to and to discuss in detail the many political, legal, economic, social and cultural aspects and matters relating to in the above mentioned study, as well as to the other relevant study of the Special Rapporteur entitled “Indigenous peoples and their relationship to land” (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2001/21);
(c) Also to recommend to the Economic and Social Council, mindful of the importance of the studies, which may, inter alia, be used as a basis for reconciliation between Governments and indigenous peoples, that they be issued as United Nations publications as part of the Human Rights Study Series.